The Ambassadors - Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times

History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Richelieu and Mazarin inhabited a 16th-century world we can hardly imagine today, but it is from their time that we can begin to see the outline of today's Europe.

The Ambassadors includes a brilliant analysis of the people who built the Western side of the Cold War. Henry Kissinger is a pivotal figure in the post-war world, and his story is in some ways typical: he failed in his most important aims and succeeded in ways he never expected. Robert Cooper's pieces together history and considers the illuminating fragments it leaves behind.

A propos de l'auteur

Robert Cooper

Résumé

Diplomacy in the West from Richelieu to Kissinger: the great diplomats of history and what their achievements tell us about the most important issues of our time

Préface

Diplomacy in the West from Richelieu to Kissinger: the great diplomats of history and what their achievements tell us about the most important issues of our time

Texte suppl.

This book's often critical analysis is as good a primer on Kissinger as there is to be found

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Robert Cooper, Cooper Robert
• Edition: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781780228365
• ISBN: 978-1-78022-836-5
• Pages: 576
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 38 mm
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > 20e siècle (jusqu'en 1945); Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Western, International Relations, Diplomacy, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General